Wire-stretcher



( No Model'.)

' J. L. MORTBR.

WIRE STRETGHBR. No. 245,204. Patented Aug. 2,1881.

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JOHN L. MORTER, OF GAINESVILLE, TEXAS.

'W lRE-STRETCHER.

' SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 245,204, dated August 2, 1881.

Application filed June 4, 1881. (No model.) v

' To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, J. L. MOR'lER,0f Gainesville, in the cou ntyof Cooke and State of Texas, have invented a new and valuable Improvement in Wire-Stretchers; and I do hereby declare that the following is full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference beinghad to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a representation of a vertical section of my wire-strctcher, and Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional View of the same.

This invention is designed to facilitate the building of wire fences; and it consists in the construction and novel arrangement of the transporting bed or wagon, its spindles for the spools of wire, and its transverse Windlassrollers and their ratchets and pawls, all as hereinafter shown and described.

In the accompanying drawings, the letterA designates the transporting-bed of the machine, which is usually provided with wheels, and adapted to be drawn along the line of posts to which the wires are to be connected. If three wires are to be employed in forming the fence, as is usual in such constructions, the bed A is provided at its rear end with three spindles, b, on which the spools of wire are placed. The ends of the wires are attached to the first post of the fence, each at its proper height from the ground, and the machine is then drawn along the line of posts until the wire on the spools has been paid out.

0 0 indicate a series of transverse Windlassrollers, placed one over the other, as shown in cached.

one end with a ratchet, g, arranged to engage with a pawl, h, pivoted to the upright, and at the other end with a hearing, it, for alever, L, whereby it can be turned. When the wires are connected to the rollers the latter are put in action by means of the lever to tighten the wires and bring them up in position along the line of posts, to which they can then be at- The ratchet and pawl of each roller serves to hold the wire tense after it has been drawn by the Windlass and lever.

Having described this invention, what I claim, and desireto secure by Letters Patent, 1s-

The wire-stretcher herein described, consisting of the transporting-bed A, its uprights E, and braces F, the spindles b on the rear end of the bed, and the Windlass-rollers G in front, arranged in vertical series, journaled in bearingsin the uprights E, and having the pawls h and ratchets g and the lever-bearings 70, substantially as specified.

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my name in the presence of two witnesses.

J OHI\ LETOHER MORTER. Witnesses:

RD. MORRIS, H. HU'LEN. 

